Everett KENT

(1888-1963)

KENT, Everett, a
Representative from Pennsylvania; born in East Bangor, Northampton
County, Pa., November 15, 1888; attended the public schools in
Lansford, East Bangor, Nazareth, and Bangor, Pa.; engaged as a
machinist and as a newspaper reporter; taught school; principal of
Roosevelt School, Bangor, Pa.; was graduated from the law
department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in
1911; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice
in Bangor; counsel for several municipalities; attorney for the
board of prison inspectors of Northampton County 1912-1915;
solicitor of Northampton County 1920-1923; elected as a Democrat to
the Sixty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1925);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1924 to the Sixty-ninth
Congress; elected to the Seventieth Congress (March 4, 1927-March
3, 1929); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928 to the
Seventy-first Congress; delegate to the Democratic National
Conventions in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, and 1956; solicitor
for the county controller of Northampton County, Pa., 1933-1943;
resumed the practice of his profession in Bangor, Pa.; died in
Bethlehem, Pa., October 13, 1963; interment in St. John’s
Cemetery, Bangor, Pa.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present